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“Teacher education courses promulgate two great myths. One myth is that all children expect or need to be treated the same. The second myth is that there are certainties in the schoolhouse. Benjamin Franklin said nothing is certain but death and taxes. In the schoolhouse, nothing is certain and no one is equal.”

“We could revolutionize education if we asked every person connected with the education of children, 'Read any good books lately?'”

Susan Ohanian,

in Phi Delta Kappan (1997)

“Teaching is a rigorous act of faith.”

Susan Ohanian,

in Phi Delta Kappan (1996)

“... as every teacher knows, it is easier to move a graveyard than to change a district's existing curriculum.”

Susan Ohanian,

in Phi Delta Kappan (1996)

“School, after all, is now — and should remain — the place where, when you come, they have to teach you.”

Susan Ohanian,

in Phi Delta Kappan (1996)

“With large industries throwing out the factory model as counterproductive, it is long past time for schools to do the same. I wonder how many adults would do well at dealing with different job requirements and a different boss every 47 minutes.”

Susan Ohanian,

in Phi Delta Kappan (1996)

“... what a teacher thinks she teaches often has little to do with what students learn.”

Susan Ohanian,

in Phi Delta Kappan (1996)

“The really scary thing about teaching is that we teachers, particularly those of us in elementary school, teach who we are. We are the curriculum.”